Starfish community (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° S, 173.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• [no formation name given]

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• "BA6" [no litho info given]

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Garratt. 1983. Silurian to early Devonian facies and biofacies patterns for the Melbourne Trough, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 30:121-147 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 647: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 16.02.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Garratt, 1983"
Ophiuroidea
 Phrynophiurida - Eospondylidae
Eospondylus sp. Gregory 1897 brittle star
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster Forbes 1849 brittle star
 Oegophiurida - Lapworthuridae
Lapworthura sp. Gregory 1897 brittle star
originally entered as "Lapwurthura sp."
  - Encrinasteridae
Crepidosoma sp. Spencer 1930 brittle star
Cystoidea
  -
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846
Blastoidea
  -
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Spiriferida -
Boucotia sp. Gill 1969
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Apocalymene sp." = Gravicalymene
"Apocalymene sp." = Gravicalymene Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Odontochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Dicranurus sp. Conrad 1841 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral